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1804 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
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1804 United States presidential election in Rhode Island Rhode Island Flag_of_the_United_States_(1795-1818).svg presidential no 1800 United States presidential election in Rhode Island 1800 1808 United States presidential election in Rhode Island 1808 November 21, 1804 GA SC 200x200px File:Portrait of Thomas Jefferson, 1805 (Cropped).jpg Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Party Virginia George Clinton 4 1,312 100.0% 300px County results 300px Municipality results 250px
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A presidential election was held in Rhode Island on November 21, 1804, as part of the 1804 United States presidential election.On Wednesday next [...] https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83021188/1804-11-15/ed-1/?sp=3 Rhode-Island Republican November 21, 1804 The Democratic-Republican Party's ticket of incumbent president Thomas Jefferson and former New York governor George Clinton was elected unanimously.Lampi 2012 The Federalist Party did not nominate electors. Jefferson won the national election in a landslide over the de facto Federalist candidate, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.Dauer 2002 168
General election
Summary
Rhode Island chose four electors on a statewide general ticket. Nineteenth-century election laws required voters to elect the members of the Electoral College individually, rather than as a block. This sometimes resulted in small differences in the number of votes cast for electors pledged to the same presidential nominee, if some voters did not vote for all the electors nominated by a party.Lampi n.d. The following table shows the result for the leading Democratic-Republican elector to give an approximate sense of the statewide popular vote.
1804 United States presidential election in Rhode IslandLampi 2012
Democratic-Republican Party
Thomas JeffersonGeorge Clinton
1,312
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1,312
100.00
Results
+ 1804 United States presidential election in Rhode IslandLampi 2012 Party Candidate Votes Democratic-Republican James Aldrich 1,312 Democratic-Republican James Helme 1,311 Democratic-Republican Benjamin Remington 1,309 Democratic-Republican Constant Taber 1,308 Total votes ≈1,312
Results by county
+ 1804 United States presidential election in Rhode Island by countyLampi 2012 County Thomas JeffersonDemocratic-Republican Total Votes % Bristol 38 100.00 38 Kent 138 100.00 138 Newport 345 100.00 345 Providence 575 100.00 575 Washington 216 100.00 216 TOTAL 1,312 100.00 1,312
See also
United States presidential elections in Rhode Island
References
Bibliography
Dauer Manning Julian Schlesinger Arthur M. Jr. Israel Fred L. History of American Presidential Elections, 1789–2001 1 Chelsea House Publishers Philadelphia 2002 Election of 1804 159–82 https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica01schl/page/158/mode/2up
Lampi Philip J. Electoral College https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/?f%5Boffice_id_ssim%5D%5B%5D=ON056 A New Nation Votes American Antiquarian Society March 28, 2026 n.d.
Lampi Philip J. Rhode Island 1804 Electoral College https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/pg15bg45d A New Nation Votes American Antiquarian Society March 27, 2026 2012
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